JONAS Olsson claimed he was on a mission to redeem himself against Sunderland following his blunder against Manchester City.

The Swede gave away a penalty at Eastlands last Sunday just after Albion had levelled the scores at 2-2. The Baggies went on to lose 4-2 and Olsson felt responsible for ruining Albion’s hopes of securing a victory.

He made up for his error by scoring the opener in Saturday’s 3-0 win against the Black Cats and produced another strong display at the back.

“It was nice to bounce back after last week, especially for me,” said Olsson.

“It was nice to redeem myself after killing us last week at Manchester City with the penalty.

“It was nice to put one in the net.

“We have played well in the last three away games at West Ham, Portsmouth and Manchester City and we’ve got two points from them.

“In all of them we played really well but last week silly mistakes, including one of mine, cost us the game and against West Ham and Portsmouth we had a few chances to put the games away.

“It has been really frustrating playing really well away and only getting two points.”

Despite Albion still finding themselves cut adrift, Olsson has not given up hope of survival just yet.

And he was more pleased with Albion’s clean sheet, rather than his third goal of the campaign.

“It was a good start and then Brunty scored another one in the second half and Juan finished it off,” he added.

“I thought we played well, with good control and good discipline.

“It is always nice to score and there is no greater feeling on the football pitch.

“But there has been a lot of criticism for the defence during the season and I can see why, because we have conceded a lot of goals.

“So it was nice to get the clean sheet.

“We are six or seven points behind and there are still four games to go.

“That is what we’re going to focus on. Of course we would want to be a little bit closer, but we aren’t so we will just have to try to make it up in the last four games.”